QUOTES FOR GREED IN A CHRISTMAS CAROL

“Business! Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business.” – Jacob Marley

“No space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.” – Jacob Marley

“I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.” – Jacob Marley

“I have come to warn you, that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate.” – Jacob Marley

“I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere.” – Jacob Marley

“The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” – The Ghost of Christmas Present

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“I can’t afford to make idle people merry” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“You fear the world too much. All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach.” – The Ghost of Christmas Past

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“I will change! I will honour Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“I see a vacant seat…in the poor chimney corner…a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.” – The Ghost of Christmas Present

“It is required of every man…that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen.” – The Ghost of Christmas Present HEADACHE GO AWAY QUOTES

“Only the instantaneous present is our reality.” – The Ghost of Christmas Present

“The whole scene passed off in the breath of the last word spoken by his nephew.” – Narrator

“Avarice, ambition, revenge, are so much gigantic shadows, that we can throw a light upon, if we choose.” – The Ghost of Christmas Present

“I’m sorry for people who live in lands where there are no children.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a schoolboy.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.” – The Ghost of Christmas Present

“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.” – Ebenezer Scrooge

“I see a vacant seat…in the poor chimney corner…a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved.” – The Ghost of Christmas Present

“It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen.” – The Ghost of Christmas Present

“Only the instantaneous present is our reality.” – The Ghost of Christmas Present

“Man, I do not know whose child you are, nor do I care. It matters little to me. Whether you are a good creature or a bad one.” – Jacob Marley

“For there is nothing on the earth so hard, so merciless, or so pitiless as the love of money” – Charles Dickens

“A covetous old sinner…” – Narrator